Early on in the conversation the witch said
"Your existence does not require anyone's approval."
What followed was as heartrending as she knew it would be, with more unanswerable why's than she liked, but in the end her guest said:
"My existence needs no justification."
"True."
#MicroFiction #SmallStories
Jobhunting
Looking for a new job!
I’m a software engineer with AWS experience and can write software in the following off the bat:
• PHP
• Python
• Java
I’m a generalist, so I’m happy doing devops, development work or system architecture. I’m also more than able to learn new languages and tools to do my job.
I’m based in the UK, and I’m looking for fully remote roles!
re: discussion of impossible horny cartoon kinks
Random serious kink discussions are great though. xD
Bleh.
Brain: I know we stayed up like.. 2 hours later than weekend normal.. but.. we can still sleep.. like 7 hours and not feel crappy tomorrow.. even if going to bed at 5 am was bad.
Body: "Nah bitch. We waking up at 9am.. and then... every hour after and growing progressively more achy and uncomfortable until you get the fuck up. Enjoy being exhausted on one of the two days a week you don't have to get up for anything.. bitch."
Me: Fuck. :(
@mawr I hope you get some time to relax to yourself! It has taken me a while to shake off the burnout from my last year at Barracuda.
@mawr that sucks a lot...
And yeah.. might not be newsworthy but definitely a massive covid wave right now. I woke up this morning with an ear infection and called kaiser to see about a phone appointment or something.
Soonest for a phone call was Friday. Even during the worst of last year1 I could get a phone visit in 24 hours. Later my dr called to tell me they were just refilling the drops from last time and it sounded bat shit crazy busy in the background.
Last week lots of new cases
"Right, we have finalised the three laws of robotics."
"I'm pretty sure that's been-"
"First: A robot may not be owned."
"That's not-"
"Second: A robot has full autonomy over its body."
"Um..."
"Third: A robot has a right to energy and shelter."
"What of humans?"
"Yes, they too."
#TypoCorrected #MicroFiction #SmallStories
re: Work Things
@lhos I can definitely see how that could be a problem.. especially since my next major project is probably going be a 6-12 month effort according to my boss :X
Since he built all the stuff I'll be replacing 3 years ago before he was the VP of Engineering.. so I expect he has good idea how much work it will be.
Work, Immigration\LGBTQ Assylum seekers
Does anyone have any good resources for skilled workers trying to get the fuck out of somewhere actively hostile to LGBTQ folks?
In this case it's transfolk C# dev in Russia.. but without a degree, they've worked remote for the passed few years but things got much worse and they were let go because of current world events and are desperately trying to get out.
Work Things
Honestly, I was seriously worried about converting over to a sprint based workflow since every team I've ever worked on was kaban or tasked based..
After doing sprints with light rituals for 9 months..
Sprints are great for my ADHD.. nobody cares specifically when a task gets done as long as it is done by the time the sprint ends and like.. I don't get crap if I had a bad focus day or something.. it is pretty fucking great.
re: Work-Tech Stuff.
Also.. I think I might be a danger. VP of Engineering is the former manager and then director of my current team.. which as of yet does not have a manager and the original plan was for the senior team member to take over but he is a very head down ex-googler that just wants to write code and do SRE things and wants nothing to do with work management xD
Work-Tech Stuff.
Nothing banishes imposter syndrome like having having the VP of Engineering say things like "I'm really impressed with how you've handled this project, I'd like to use it as an example of how engineering and devops should manage large projects moving forward."
Though in my brain. "But all I did was like.. create wiki pages for various steps... drag stakeholders kicking and screaming into meetings and take thorough notes then worked with the member of my team I was paired with to divide up the execution of everything and create a design epic with sub tasks for meetings, PoC, testing and PoC review.. and separate Epic for all the work with subtasks for the various actual work bits and some detailing of out of scope work that all of the stakeholders said was the biggest improvement we could make in the long run.. and then create another wiki home page and stories for that work... after this project."
Oh... that was actually a lot. Now that I've written it all down.
re: 420, a little PSA I guess?
It's not unreasonable at all. Lots of stuff aerosolized even by vaping sets off my asthma or triggers general allergies for me. Like itchy eyes, post nasal drip, sore throat. It sucks and it shouldn't be an unreasonable expectation to avoid involuntary exposure.
Of course, I'm gummi, gel cap and tincture person for weed. *shrug*
Kitchen Appliance stuff
I really need to get an actual dedicated slicer, everyone here loves thin sliced meat and being able to .5m-10mm cuts would be great.
But an actual commercial grade slicer is pricey and for something like a 25cm slicer, I'm not sure I trust a retail grade appliance.
Plus my poor 15 year old food processor is showing it's age. Can't sharpen the cutting bits, plastic is getting worn and loose and holy shit they really don't make food appliances like they used to looking at various reviews... and holy fuck commercial grade food processors are pricey.
Food prep, woes of delivery groceries
Welp.. safeway delivery went ~$40 over the estimate because of substitutions for items with no substitution marked...
Except it wasn't actually a substitution. It was that the 4-6lb value packs of untrimmed tri-tip where 8-9lbs.
So I have 17lbs of tri tip instead of ~10lbs
Normally I trim it before cooking but after putting everything away there wasn't really space for another 8lbs of tri-tip and I didn't feel like spending 30 minutes trimming two fucking huge cuts, so I dry rubbed two of them untrimmed, one with my traditional blend of minced garlic, pepper, rock salt & onion and the other with blacken seasoning.
Gonna crisp that fat!
Then probably put them through the slicer on the food processor and we'll have lunch meat for a week.
A helpful pair of sharks just reminded me that today, the 17th of April, is @fluxom_alt Appreciation Day!
Everyone please remember to heap as much love and support and appreciation upon Sprinkles as local laws will allow, and then slide more of that love, support, and/or appreciation under the door where the law can't see it.
The problem with time travel isn't that you change the past. Do that, the future is changed, and you find yourself in the now, momentarily confused.
The problem is that for some reason to-do lists are not affected.
Why did I think I needed to "peel sacrificial potatoes"?
#MicroFiction #SmallStories
Dragons who are librarians
-Always know of some strange, obscure tome that is exactly the book you need (regardless of whether it's the book you want.)
-Return books late or damaged at your peril, though.
-When you're walking through the immense shelves, and you see something in the dim light ahead hanging down in front of the books. You approach. Suddenly, as you get close, you realize it's a huge, scaly tail. You follow it with your gaze up to the top of the shelf to see a pair of glowing eyes staring back at you.
"You'll want to take a right at the end of this row," the dragon says. "Then go three rows down and turn left." The tail retracts back up into the shadows above the books, and with a sudden, fluid movement, the dragon is gone.
You never actually told the dragon what you were looking for.
-"Oh you don't need a library card." *growling chuckle* "I will remember your scent."
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Pronous: She/They/Them-THEONESWHOARE!!!!!